Here's a look at 11 Muslim Athletes who made the headlines at the Tokyo Olympics 2020
Friday August 13, 2021 0:33 AM, ummid.com with inputs from Agencies
(UMMID) Tokyo: The Tokyo Olympics that began on July 23 after a year’s delay concluded on August 08, 2021 with a glittering ceremony. The next game will be now in Beijing China.
More than 11,000 athletes across 33 sports competed in the showpiece event. Among them were a number of Muslim athletes from more than two dozen OIC countries, and also some from non-Muslim countries.
Here’s a look at 11 Muslim Athletes who made the headlines at the Tokyo Olympics 2020.
1. Sifan Hassan
Netherlands’ Sifan Hassan became the first athlete to medal in all three track events at one Olympics – the 1,500, the 5,000 and the 10,000 meters.
Sifan Hassan won the women’s 10,000 metres final after her gold in 5,000 metres a few days back and Norway’s Jakob Ingbrigtsen won the men’s 1500 metres event in Tokyo Games 2021.
Sifan Hassan was born in Adama, Oromia, Ethiopia and raised in the countryside of Kersa in the Munesa district of the Arsi Zone of Oromia. She left Ethiopia as a refugee and arrived in the Netherlands in 2008 aged 15.
2. Feryal Abdelaziz
Feryal Abdelaziz claimed Gold after beating Irina Zaretska of Azerbaijan 2-0 in the final for the Women’s Karate Kumite +61 kilogram competition at Tokyo Olympics, becoming the first Egyptian woman to win the title.
The athlete’s achievement at Tokyo’s Nippon Budokan arena secured Egypt’s first Gold medal in 17 years. Karam Gaber was the last Egyptian athlete to win the Gold for the country in the 2004 Athens Games.
Born in 1999, Feryal Abdelaziz was seven when she took up karate in Cairo. In her education she trained to become a pharmacist.